We all want to be happy. So why do we often feel like everyone around us is fulfilled, but we're missing something?
Is it even possible to make changes to improve your well-being?
Rick Hanson, PhD, is a psychologist who's spent decades studying how you can achieve lasting happiness. His science-based techniques help overcome your brain's natural negativity bias so you can "rewire" your brain for the better.
Rick is a great trainer. He has a wonderful easy manner, which immediately creates an empathetic environment. And he has the knack of presenting things in an easy-to-digest and friendly way.
With Train Your Brain for Happiness, you will learn how to embrace everyday experiences and use them to “take in the good” and create beneficial, lasting change in your life.
Instead of being thrown off track by life's challenges, Rick teaches you how to feel more balanced, in control, and at peace, no matter what's going on around you.
Through science-based mindfulness practices, the latest findings in neuroplasticity, and inspiring personal anecdotes, Rick guides you step-by-step in the transformational journey that is Train Your Brain for Happiness.
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Rewire Your Brain
Use your mind to change your brain for the better.
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Heal Old Pain
Overcome the brain's natural negativity bias.
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Take in the Good
Turn passing experiences into beneficial, lasting changes.
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Be More Present
Embrace positive experiences by being more fully in the moment.
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Take Back Control
Grow inner strengths that help you cope with the hard things in life.
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Hardwire Your Happiness
Identify key experiences that help build your path to lasting well-being.
- Over 8 hours of video training where Rick shares exciting ideas from neuroscience, powerful guided meditations, and practical ways to “rewire” your brain for lasting inner strength and peace.
- Live Q&A mentoring session (7/12/2017 6:00 PM MDT) with Rick offering personalized feedback and guidance.
- Course workbook and daily trackers that help tap the power of positive neuroplasticity.
- Guided practices to keep you on the path to changing your brain for the better.
- Personal journaling to help you record and reflect on your meaningful transformation, work through roadblocks, and celebrate the wins.
For professionals, this course is now approved for 9 continuing education (CE) credits. You can purchase this separate product at any time after purchasing the course. See your “Purchase Confirmation” email for full details.
SESSION ONE: It’s Good to Be Happy
What is happiness, and why is it good to feel good?
In Session One, you will dive into the benefits of happiness and explore how self-directed neuroplasticity enables us to change our brain for the better. Learn more about:
- How to disengage from feeding our brain the bad stuff
- How to turn passing experiences into lasting psychological resources such as resilience, self-worth, calm, and compassion
- Harnessing the power of the mind to create a life full of peace, contentment, and love
SESSION TWO: Being On Your Own Side
Embracing self-compassion for yourself and “being on your own side” is the first step in hardwiring your brain for lasting strength, inner peace, and happiness. Session Two reveals:
- How self-compassion opens the door to a more joyful life
- Three powerful guided meditations to cultivate compassion
- Working with our “inner protector”
SESSION THREE: Cultivating Your Inner Strengths
Inner strengths such as peace, contentment, love, confidence, self-compassion, courage, patience, and emotional balance are necessary ingredients to support you during difficult or uncomfortable situations in life. Session Three explores:
- How we cultivate inner strengths by experiencing them
- Overcoming our built-in “negativity bias”
- How to “install” experiences of inner strength into your own nervous system
SESSION FOUR: Taking in the Good
The best way to develop greater happiness and other inner strengths is to have experiences of them, and then help these good mental states become good neural traits. This is taking in the good—activating a positive experience and installing it in your brain. Session Four discusses:
- Coming home to a comfortable intimacy with your own experience
- Developing a confident openness to life and greater mastery with your own mind
- Popping open the “bottleneck in the brain” to let the good stuff in
SESSION FIVE: Why It Is Good to Take In the Good, and Working with Others to Take In the Good
As you gradually sensitize your brain, it gets faster and more efficient at converting beneficial states into lasting beneficial traits. Session Five explores:
- Pulling weeds and planting flowers as you tend the “garden of the mind”
- Not positive thinking, but realistic thinking
- Mindfulness training and the mantra “Let be. Let go. Let in.”
SESSION SIX: Growing Your Key Strengths
Our brain evolved to meet our three core needs—safety, satisfaction, and connection. These three operating systems that avoid harms, approach rewards, and attach to others are actively alive in our brain today. Session Six illuminates:
- How our brains take their shape from what our minds repeatedly rest upon
- Turning peace, contentment, and love into your default states
- Increasing your sense of unconditional joy
SESSION SEVEN: Your Resource Experience
Knowing what experiences and resources we personally need more of in life unlocks a world that we have been searching for our entire lives. In Session Seven, you’ll explore:
- Identifying your personal “Vitamin C"—that which nourishes your sense of connection and wholeness
- Self-soothing negative thoughts and feelings
- A guided meditation for experiencing your inner resources
SESSION EIGHT: Staying in the Green Zone
When we are not deficient in one or more of our core needs, and instead there is a sense of fullness and balance, the brain and nervous system will tend to default to our resting state of peace, contentment, and love — “our true home base.” Session Eight explores:
- How to use “responsive states and traits” to manage difficult situations
- The possibility of resting in peace, contentment, and love the majority of the time, both individually and collectively
- A guided meditation on “Coming Home to Happiness”
Our online students praise Rick Hanson’s courses as immersive, deeply informed, and interactive.
Here’s a summary of everything you’ll receive when you register for Train Your Brain For Happiness:
- Over eight hours of video training where Rick shares exciting ideas from neuroscience, powerful guided meditations, and practical ways to “rewire” your brain for lasting inner strength and peace.
- Live Q&A mentoring session (7/12/2017 6:00 PM MDT) with Rick offering personalized feedback and guidance.
- Course workbook and daily trackers that help tap the power of positive neuroplasticity.
- Guided practices to keep you on the path to changing your brain for the better.
- Personal journaling to help you record and reflect on your meaningful transformation, work through roadblocks, and celebrate the wins.
- Rick Hanson meets with world-class teachers to explore the mind’s ability to change the brain. Eight video sessions featuring Richard Davidson, Dan Siegel, Tara Brach, Dacher Keltner, Kelly McGonigal, Kristin Neff, and Jean Houston.
- A practice-rich audio program where Rick Hanson shows you how to transform your relationships using brain-savvy methods.
- Live Q&A Via real-time video broadcast, Rick Hanson responds to your specific needs, challenges, and questions.
For professionals, this course is now approved for 9 continuing education (CE) credits. You can purchase this separate product at any time after purchasing the course. See your “Purchase Confirmation” email for full details.
Course starts May 17, 2017
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We unconditionally guarantee your satisfaction with all Sounds True products for one year when purchased via our website. If you are not 100% satisfied with Train Your Brain for Happiness for any reason, simply return it with receipt for a full refund.
This program saved me after a year of depression and anxiety following the end of a love relationship. No more overwhelming crying spells or anxiety bouts. Highly recommended.
I've taken several meditation-based classes, but this one with Rick Hanson has been the absolute best. I've learned so much academically, personally, and for my use as a clinician.
I’ve been so pleased with the ease and flow of this course. Well organized, easily accessed, and rich with information and practice opportunities.
Thank you, Rick, for so many practical and varied tools. I looked forward to each of the sessions, and have appreciated being able to return to them for ongoing practice.
How do I access the free Masterclass after I input my email?
You will receive an email with the download or a link.
How do I purchase Train Your Brain For Happiness?
You can purchase it here.
How do I access my course once I have purchased?
To access your course, you will need to:
- Log in to your Sounds True account.
- Click on “my library” (located in the green navigation bar at the top right of the page.)
- Click on “Online Courses” (located on the left side of the page.)
- Find Train Your Brain For Happiness.
- Click on “go to course.”
How do I access The Compassionate Brain or The Neurodharma of Love?
It will be in your Digital Library after purchase.
Can I download the course to a computer or mobile device?
You can download the course onto your computer. At this time, courses are also available in your Sounds True App and can be streamed on your mobile device but can not be downloaded. However, you can download the sessions on your computer and then sync to your device, where it will be available in iTunes.
Registration is now closed
Please sign up below if you would like to be notified when we reopen registration.
We unconditionally guarantee your satisfaction with all Sounds True products for one year when purchased via our website. If you are not 100% satisfied with Train Your Brain for Happiness for any reason, simply return it with receipt for a full refund.